A man in the UK has been sentenced to 14 month in prison after taste to flog off endangered animal parts on the popular social media app Instagram . Abbas Allawi , 52 , was taken into detainment for trying to betray rhino horns , elephant tusk , and hippo teeth value at up to £ 2 m.
police force caught Allawi in October of last year , after a family raid in which search dogs sniff out the illegal self-command in his dome .
Harrow Crown Court have now ground him guilty of six wildlife offence , all of which he has include to . The charges affect purchasing and seek to betray three rhino horns , two elephant tusk , and four hippopotamus teeth .
" Some rhino population are critically endangered , " Met Police ’s Det Con Christopher Jones toldBBC . " Police are the last business of defence mechanism for some of these beautiful puppet . We will assay to pursue anyone set up to be trading lawlessly . ”
" A creation without iconic mintage such as rhinos and elephant would be a sad home , ” Jones sum up toThe Guardian .
According to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulations 1997 , it’sagainst the lawin the UK to sell parts of endangered animate being .
Animal poaching is still become strong , and in many cases has increase in bit across countries in Africa in the last 10 . Save The Rhinonoted that during 2013 , there were 1,004 rhinoceros slaughtered in South Africa . In 2014 , that statistic jumped to 1,215 , but in 2016 the identification number reduced to 1,054 .
TheAfrican Wildlife Foundationsay that rhino horns are often bribe based on the feeling that they heal hangovers and even cancer , but there ’s utterly no proof to back this up . Elephant tusk are extremely valued as ivory jewellery and can be sold for thousands of dollars .
What ’s more , it was reported byThe Guardianthat in the last century one elephant has been poached every 15 minutes . They also reported a 30 per centum downslope in Africa ’s savannah elephants over the last seven days .
Just two calendar month ago , the UK government made an declaration to cast out the sale of tusk in the UK . In aconference , environment pastor Therese Coffey said : “ The international community of interests shares a vulgar object to end merciless poaching and condemnable trading , but now is the fourth dimension to step up decisive natural process . ”
